band is recording most of their shows. Later in the year they released a live album Who's Driving? Their song of the same name does not make it onto the album. They celebrated the release with at return to Irving plaza on October 9, 1993. 1994: The road goes on, Geffen Records and $1.99 Romances In the mid 1990s God Street Wine was on the road all but constantly. 1994 was no exception to this. The work they had done in the last few years was paying off as they were playing increasingly larger venues and getting booked for lucrative college gigs and the like. Their spring 1994 tour ended with a headline appearance at Port Chester's Capitol Theater. In January of that year they had signed with Geffen Records. After time spent finding the right producer for their major label debut the band decamped to Memphis. They spent 6 weeks at Beale Street Studios with producer Jim Dickinson and engineer Malcom Springer. The recording sessions were fruitful but fraught with tension between the band and Dickinson who threatened to drown the masters in the Mississippi river. Despite the strain Faber insists there were benefits to working with Dickinson, “One of the best things Jim did was bring in a vocal coach named Sanchez Harley. He was a black, gospel choir director. He taught us over the course of two weeks, of twelve hour days, four part church harmonies and apply it to all our songs. It made a huge difference in the sound of the band.” The final mix was completed in New York City. “$1.99 Romances” was releases by Geffen / Eleven Records in September 1994. 1995-1996: Emancipation from Geffen contract, recording and release of Red Having had a less-than-stellar experience with Geffen Records, during the recording and promotion of $1.99 Romances, the band was relieved in 1995 to be released from its contract. The band turned its house into a 52-track recording studio and started work on its next album. Free from the constraints of a label, and financing the project itself, God Street Wine took a different approach to recording. Previous projects were based on road-tested songs that in some cases had been played live for years. In this case, the band chose to write new songs during the recording sessions. In addition, it recorded in a segmented fashion, finishing one song before moving on to